Open-source News

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More  Phoronix

This Free and Open-Source App for Linux Helps Keep My Important Documents Safe  How-To Geek

Genode OS 25.08: Fair Scheduler, Linux 6.12 Drivers, and seL4 Upgrades  WebProNews

Fwupd 2.0.14 Boosts Linux Firmware with New Device Support and Fixes  WebProNews

Btrfs Maintainer Josef Bacik Leaves Meta, Steps Back from Linux Dev  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds Reclassifies Bcachefs as Externally Maintained in Linux Kernel  WebProNews

After switching to Linux, I finally stopped believing the myth that intimidated me  xda-developers.com

6 Open-Source Apps for Linux Gamers  How-To Geek

Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled. In turn this opens up Wayfire to having experimental support for rendering using the Vulkan API...

The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...

bsd-user-4-linux Lets FreeBSD Binaries Run Unmodified On Linux  Phoronix

Wine 10.14 released with library upgrades, network improvements, and bug fixes  BetaNews

20-year-old ATI Radeon GPUs are still getting driver updates and extensions — old ATI Radeon R300 GPUs receive Linux updates from the community  Tom's Hardware

DSpi: Dual touchscreen Linux handheld powered by a Raspberry Pi  Notebookcheck

It took me 5 years to learn not to make these Linux mistakes  MakeUseOf

4 Reasons I Keep Linux In a Docker Container Instead of Dual-Booting  How-To Geek

I've Daily Driven Garuda Linux for 4 Years. Here’s Why It’s My Favorite Linux Distro  How-To Geek

How to transfer and share files over a network without a USB flash drive — and with just one line of code  Tom's Hardware

New 'Sindoor Dropper' Malware Targets Linux Systems with Weaponized .desktop Files  CyberSecurityNews

Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer. DXVK 2.7.1 enables yet more games to correctly render now with DXVK on Linux...